The grouchy historian
Subtitle: an old-time lefty defends our Constitution against right-wing hypocrites and nutjobs
By: Ed Asner and Ed Weinberger
Contributors: Weinberger, Ed, author
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781501166020
Subjects: Constitutional history
Description: The life-long Democrat who played Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show puts out a call to all liberals to reclaim the constitution from the right-wingers who use it as justification for every horrible thing they want to do.

Thanks to free public education, anyone can read the Constitution-- and should. The men who wrote it couldn't agree on what it meant, so should you trust someone who claims they do? Asner, a life-long Democrat, puts out a call to all liberals to reclaim the Constitution from the right-wingers who use it as justification for every horrible thing they want to do.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: why I wrote this book; title: The founders and framers: who were those guys?; title: Snapshots of life in Philadelphia, 1787; title: Heckling the right wing: their top ten talking points and my top ten comebacks; title: God and the Constitution, Part I: epistle to the Christian right; title: God and the Constitution, Part II: epistle to the Mormons; title: The writing of the Constitution: notes from the Constitutional Convention as recorded by Billey, slave to James Madison, May 6 to September 17, 1787; title: Charles Beard's economic interpretation of the Constitution, Part I: meeting the framers; title: Charles Beard's economic interpretation of the Constitution, Part II: following the money; title: The chapter of leftovers: Part I; title: Open letter to Senator Ted Cruz written in the style of 1787; title: The Constitution according to Ben Carson, MD; title: Rewriting the Constitution: Mark Levin and the Asner amendments; title: Immigration and Ann Coulter: a review that was never published in the New York Times Book Review; title: The shocking truth about the Bill of Rights; title: The Bill of Rights in the real world; title: The chapter of leftovers: Part II; title: The emperor has no robes: Justice Antonin Scalia and Citizens United; title: Scarier than Scalia: introducing Justice Clarence Thomas; title: What in hell is a strict constructionist?; title: Anonymous letter to certain members of the Supreme Court; title: The chapter of leftovers: Part III; title: The Second Amendment: guns and the NRA; title: In conclusion; title: Appendix: The Constitution of the United States: a transcription.